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Title: 365 Nirvana Here and Now: Living Every Moment in Enlightenment by Josh Baran ISBN: 0-00-716358-4 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Enlightenment is just a click away.
Comment: If you really want to experience the power of NOW, this book is a must.
Baran has assembled the ultimate hit parade of timeless wisdom and presence. It's an entire spiritual bookstore, presented in a beautiful blue package. the perfect gift to your friends--and of course yourself.
Besides 365 incredible contributors, Josh is amazing himself. His discussion of presence, while only 10 pages, is one of the most lucid ever written.
If they send me to some desert island, there are only 2 things I will ever need---bittersweet Belgian chocolate and 365 Nirvana Now.

Rating: 5
Summary: Radical Refreshment, One Jewel at a Time
Comment: "LOOKING AT EVERYTHING AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME REVEALS THE COMMONPLACE TO BE UTTERLY INCREDIBLE, IF ONLY WE CAN BE ALIVE TO THE NEWNESS OF IT." RUTH BERNARD (venerable San Francisco photographer)

This book, by former Zen priest Josh Baran took 10 years to be selected, and consists of 365 koans, reminders, and poetic utterances from utterly disparate sources ranging from the Western poetics of Walt Whitman and Rainier Maria Rilke to traditional Buddhist teaching to Alanis Morrisette's pop lyrics to the more anecdotal remembrances of the assuredly non-famous.

It's worth the wait. Some of the daily selections benefit from Baran's closing commentary, either asking a question limned by the above reading or making a small statement that deepens the accompanying text.

365 Nirvana has the aspect of the I-Ching, a prayer book, a small book of wisdom. A shallow dip rewards deeply.

Many are crystal clear nondual utterances from Buddhist or Advaitic sources.

Others are pragmatic, poetic, and personal; for instance:

"For years, as a Zen meditator, I praved for a mystical ray gun that could zap away every negative thought. Then I discovered that thoughts weren't the enemy, and I learned to welcome them with open arms." Josh Baran (accompanying text to Francis Lucille's "Real Meditation." p. 102)

". . . "What is this miracle?' he cries. 'What are these mysteries called: trees, sea, stones, birds?'" Nikos Kazantzakis

Another exercise: When you wake up tomorrow morning, see everything as miracle, as mystery. (p. 255)

Rating: 5
Summary: Everyday Enlightenment
Comment: This is a book to read everyday. I just open it at random and read a page or two. So many incredible, simple and clear reminders that IT is all right here - peace, truth, heaven on earth. No beliefs, no dogmas, no demands. Just pointers to be present to reality as it is - right here and now. I love reading these pieces after sitting quietly or just when i wake up. Also, this is a great gift book for almost anyone because of the wide and unique passages that Josh Baran has put together.

As someone who has been meditating for a very long time and has read hundreds of spiritual books, I find that 365 Nirvana Here and Now is a refreshing simple stop sign.

Also, there is a terrific afterword in the book - a long dialogue with the author that clarifies the essence of this collection.

for Power of Now fans, for seekers of any kind, for meditators -- this book is for you.

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